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Thursday, January 21,1993
Dallas courthouse remains closed
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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DALLAS — The locked
courtrooms and barren hallways
were ironic reminders Wednesday
of the triple shooting that erupted
the day before at the George Allen
Courthouse.
Hai Van Huynh opened fire in
the hallway outside the 304th
State District Court Tuesday,
shooting his wife, Ly Dang, and a
teen-age bystander before fuming
the gun on himself.
Dang, 26, died Tuesday night
of head wounds.
Huynh died Wednesday
afternoon at Parkland Memorial
Hospital. Rogerio Gutierrez, 16,
also at Parkland, was listed in
good condition with a gunshot
wound to the leg.
The shooting angered many
judges who have been pleading
with county officials to tighten
security at the building. The
judges made their point by
staying away from the courthouse
Wednesday.
Jurors also were told they
wouldn't be needed until further
notice.
Otherwise, business continued
as usual in the building where
marriage licenses, child support
papers and other documents are
processed.
One woman needing a court
order for some adoption papers
was disappointed that the judge
she needed was not there.
She agreed that security was a
problem.
"They should have learned
from Forth Worth," said Angie
Robinson, of Dallas.
Security has been on the minds
of Texas judges and attorneys
shaken by last year's shooting
spree at the Tarrant County
courthouse in Fort Worth.
Police say a man upset after
losing custody of his son and
being charged with sexually
abusing the youngster opened
fire, killing two lawyers and
injuring two judges and another
attorney in the July 1 incident.
Courthouse workers who
interact daily with litigants angry
about the disposition of their
cases say pleas for beefed-up
security are rarely heeded until
violence occurs.
"That's the way it is all over
the country. We wait until the
horse is out of the gate and then
we shut it," said Tarrant County
Sheriff's Capt. Tony Wise.
In an emergency meeting late
Tuesday, Dallas County
commissioners approved $200,000
for detectors and other security
measures.
Dallas is not alone in using
bailiffs as a primary source of
security.
The Cameron County
courthouse in Brownsville has a
bailiff in each courtroom and two
others roaming the building.
A portable metal detector is
used outside a courtroom during
capital murder cases, as they are
in Dallas during high-profile
criminal cases.
The situation is much the same
in Hidalgo County at the
courthouse in Edinburg.
The Tarrant County
courthouse, which once used
bailiffs and armed security
officers, in August began using
walk-through metal detectors and
two X-ray machines. Wise said.
Security for the county's seven
civil and criminal facilities and an
administrative building cost a
little more than $1 million.
Since installing metal detectors
at the Harris County criminal
courthouses and family law center
in Houston last year, authorities
have arrested 48 people because
of weapon seizures, particularly
Mace.
At the Potter County
courthouse in Amarillo, where a
jury is being selected in George
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the Fort Worth shooting.
A hand-held detector bailiffs
used on spectators in the Lott case
belongs to Tarrant County, Lolley
said.
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IFC Seminar
Friday, January 22
Reception
Clayton Williams Alumni Center
6:00 p.m.
Monday, January 25
Click's Billiards
7:00 p.m.
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Chili Cook-Off
Sigma Chi House
2:00 p.m.
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Night at the Races
Sigma Chi House
6:00 p.m.
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Sunday, January 24*
Sigma Chi Banquet
MSC, Room 201
2:00 p.m.
Thursday, January 28
B-B-Q and Date Party
Sigma Chi House
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DALLAS — Such splendid madness.
Cowboys fans, already becoming a bit bonkers, whipped themselves
into a frenzy even before Dallas torpedoed the 49ers in San Francisco
Bay.
Now, with their heroes in the Super Bowl, the ecstasy is too much.
Way too much.
It didn't help a whole lot that George Bush put the presidential seal
of approval on the Cowboys' victory and that Bill Clinton quickly
scrambled aboard their chuck wagon.
"I've got to be for them," Clinton told CBS anchorman Dan Rather
on the eve of the presidential inauguration.
It's that Arkansas connection, you know, with Cowboys' owner Jerry
Jones.
At least Clinton's got an excuse.
Not so for the new and more boisterous Dallas fans, some of whom
are downright road-lizard crazy.
In staggering numbers, they are buying anything silver and blue,
vaguely silver and blue or something that might turn silver and blue
under certain conditions.
Blue bread is big in the Metroplex, and a place in Fort Worth was
even dispensing blue-hued hamburgers.
"They're kind of unappetitizing, but my sister said a true Cowboys
fan will appreciate them," Melva Escalante of Quickway Shopping told
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
"We've sold some hideous things," said Chris Homer, a manager
trainee at a shop in Austin, new home of the Cowboys' summer
training camp.
How about a paisley Cowboys cap in yellow, orange and red flavors?
"If you wrote Dallas Cowboys on a piece of toilet paper, it would
sell," said a sales clerk at another Austin sports store.
Better yet, follow your heroes to Pasadena for the Super Bowl
showdown with the Buffalo Bills.
Senate confirms
Lloyd Bentsen
in first of votes
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - The
Senate unanimously confirmed
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen as treasury
secretary Wednesday in the first
of its votes on President
Clinton's Cabinet nominees.
The 1988 Democratic vice
presidential nominee and
longtime Texas senator was
quickly cleared by voice vote.
"I want to thank, first, the
people of Texas for allowing me
to serve them in the United
States Senate over the past 22
years," Bentsen said.
"It has been a high honor.
My sincerest thanks, also, to my
once and future colleagues in
the Senate for their vote of
confidence."
The Senate convened just
three hours after Clinton's
inauguration to confirm
Bentsen; Warren Christopher as
secretary of state; and Les Aspin
as secretary of defense.
Bentsen will resign his
Senate seat at noon Thursday,
opening the way for his interim
replacement. Bob Krueger, to be
sworn in later in the week.
The resignation will come in
the form of a letter to Vice
President A1 Gore, who is
president of the Senate.
Krueger, appointed to the
post by Gov. Ann Richards,
faces a special election in May
to complete the remainder of
Bentsen's term, which ends in
1994.
Senate Majority Leader
George Mitchell and Senate
Minority Leader Robert Dole
spoke glowingly of Bentsen's
accomplishments as a senator
and chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee since 1987.
"I could think of few
individuals more qualified to
serve our nation in this critically
important job," said Mitchell,
D-Maine.
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U.S. airman
shoots wife;
tells T.V. station
he loved her
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BROWNSVILLE - An airman
accused of fatally shooting his
wife at a South Carolina Air Force
base said Wednesday he
committed the crime and would
have escaped if authorities had
not gotten lucky.
Jeromy Willis, who was
arraigned on a murder charge
Wednesday morning in
Brownsville, told television
stations KGBT and KRGV he shot
his wife. Asked why, he
responded: "I loved her."
"It's sort of ironic, isn't it,"
Willis said as he was transferred
to the Cameron County Jail, where
he will be held without bond until
he can be extradited to South
Carolina.
An extradition hearing will not
be necessary because the crime
falls under federal jurisdiction
since it occurred on the base, said
the district attorney's office.
But authorities still need to
arrange for a transfer, which they
were working on Wednesday
afternoon, said jail administrator
Jesse Masso.
Willis, who fled after the Jan. 4
shooting at Myrtle Beach Air
Force Base, was arrested Tuesday
night at a Brownsville nightclub
by the FBI and Texas Rangers
according to an FBI news release.
"I was going to get away," said
Willis. "But the Texas Rangers and
the FBI got lucky. Three more days
and I would have been gone."
Tuesday morning, authorities
found a car leased by Willis neat
the international bridge leading
into Matamoros, Mexico.
There was no indication Willis
was going to leave the country,
said Brownsville police Sgt. Willie
Kingsbury.
The car was one of two vehicles
rented by Willis two days before
his wife, Marie Willis, was shot.
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